Abstract
In recent years, the introduction of Internet into Portuguese homes has been stimulated by public policies which have favored the children, adolescents and young people having laptops. To lots of lower resource families, the first computer have gotten into the houses surrounded by educational values and aimed to be used by the youngest members. From an investigation carried out with these families, this paper focuses homes that have Internet access, used with technical dexterity by adolescents and young people. It also observes their fathers and mothers to analyze the way they enjoy these technological features. What perceptions and which attitudes they have about these media? How has Internet affected the media consumer practices at home? What’s the importance of the variables like professional life or gender? These questions will be answered, from the insertion of the individuals both into their life context and structural conditions of the country where they were born, grown up and became adults.
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